Um, somehow I didn’t hear about this in Nashville, although in retrospect I find that there was somecoverage, so that’s my fault. Cara at the Curvature explains that the police in this story, of women held against their will and sold for sex rape, went ahead and charged the captive women with marijuana possession. That just about makes me want to vomit.

bfp at flip flopping joy has details on how you can “Help bring single mamis to the Allied Media Conference.” Every time I read about the AMC, I feel like – “This is a conference done right. And doing good.” – and I want to go and be inspired and feel full. Go find out how you can help somebody else do just that.

Via bfp, I ended up over at guerilla mama medicine reading a post about doula certifications (including why the author believes they’re not needed), and that led to outlaw midwives, which uses phrases like “revolutionary communities of love.” There’s a manifesta, and I’m still processing it. There hasn’t been anything new in a while, it seems, but I’ll check back.

Somewhere in there I also stumbled over a link to the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, whose mission is “to offer safe, respectful, free-of-judgment spaces for girls and young women impacted by the sex trade and street economies to recognize their goals, dreams and desires. We are run by girls and women with life experience in the sex trade and street economies. We are a youth leadership organization grounded in harm reduction and social justice organizing by and for girls and young women (ages 12-23) impacted by the sex trade and street economies.”

Jamie Murnane at After Ellen asks Why are Nipples so Offensive? It includes shots from a photographic project which features topless women with their nipples digitally removed. And thus it became the first time I ever typed Nipples Non Grata into a Google search toolbar.

Jennifer Block at pushed birth links to selected birth videos on YouTube. The photo accompanying the post is itself worth a click through. Block also notes that birth videos now tend to largely be shot at home births, as so many hospitals simply refusing to allow filming, which is a pet peeve of mine.

On a more serious note, the Medical Library Association and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries issued a joint statement [PDF] on journal publishing ethics, in light of recent events with JAMA, Elsevier, and the like. While acknowledging both that the issue deserves more in-depth discussion and the headaches of issuing a compelling joint statement with anybody, I’m kind of underwhelmed. It essentially says, “Look over there at what some other people have done.” It includes no real consequences from either the organizations or the membership (who control lots and lots of publication-buying dollars) for bad behavior.